A Research On Museum Education For Children

Firstly, childhood is the critical period for language, intelligence, and character and proficiency development of the whole life. The success or failure of education for child shall directly connect to future group quality and development of one nation. Secondly, these studies of museum memory suggest that museum memories are salient and persistent1, and museum experience of early stage of positively or negatively are kept and fermented in memory, even it shall influence the long-term relation between audience and museum, so children audience management is the management of future museum. Thirdly, museum is different from family, school education organizations, museum can encourage children to operate by themselves and participate in research by its fresh, lively and vivid education ways which exempt traditional mechanical education, and it can totally participate in children education by a "innovation" way to become supplement and extension for family and social educations. Fourthly, in fact, there are about300million children in our country but there are only few Children’s Museums. Usually, museums seldom set special area for children as education always neglects children group. It stands in sharp contrast that several of activities which suitable for children have been putout in competing, America museums which start from children and race to promote various activities2suitable to60million children with about300Children1s Museums set. Fifth, the systematic research of this area is still the weak segment in theory except child education has not been extending in practical of mainland. Based on the five reasons mentioned above, the research targets on museum education for children. The problem it shall solve is:take countermeasures for problems existing in museum education for children which has been detected in China in current period.Therefore, series of problems should be solved:how to conduct the activity as the children education is innumerable and complicated? There are various problems existed and how to detect them scientifically? Problems seem obvious but how to find out the inherent reasons? The problems are numerous and disorderly, how to find the improving methods? The research proposes solution:focus on museum education for children and make classification so as to build evaluation indicator system for children education, detect various current problems existed and propose solutions accordingly; meanwhile, abstract commonly core problems of various types and look for fundamental solutions. The basic idea is:according to analysis on current museum education for children, classify children education into two classifications based on a broad sense and practical model, and create framework to develop discussion of the research; based on further analysis and evaluation on cases of the two classifications in both home and abroad and through comparison and discussion, look for the reasons that influence domestic education benefit; make concrete analysis on problems and take countermeasures according to the problems; meanwhile conclude various characteristics of children education; push the research to climax and integrate two kinds of domestic education together so as to propose solutions for the essential problems once for all; finally, upgrade practice to theory and complete conclusion and prospect of the research.The article is divided into eight chapters. Introduction of it is to clarify motivation, significance, scope, method and retrospect and conclusion about related researches. Chapter1proposes problem which is the premise of the research so as to conduct historic clarification, object classification and status analysis. Chapter2, chapter3and chapter4make analysis on the problem. Chapter2clarify and apply related theories of the research into actual use and the intention of the conclusion is not to show the result concluded but to apply it into use skillfully, so as to design research methods scientifically. Chapter3and chapter4take use of those methods to make further research and discussion on the two kinds of education types respectively. Problems are firstly described respectively; clarify the factors to select the cases and accordingly select the12cases in three categories from both home and abroad; based on specific analysis on various factors of those cases, internal rating among researchers and questionnaire, interview or external inspection as well as comparison between cases in both home and abroad, various highlight domestic and oversea problems are looked for and analysis and discussion are made Chapter5, chapter6and chapter7are to solve problems and develop strategy research aim at the problems of different types which have been detected, at the same time in allusion to the problems of affecting benefit of different types in current, combining the information based on inspection, questionnaire and interview feedback information to propose related suggestions for improvement and build different types of ideal models. Chapter7make further research and integrate two types together, exploration the basic problem, so as to try to establish education guidance for children from0-18years old in four stages based on internal causes and previous research result. Chapter8makes conclusion and sublimation on research result. Based on those research results, four major theories about children educations of this research have been sublimated; make prospective thinking and trend analysis for the future research of this project.Research result and findings:based on transverse comparison between domestic cases and abroad cases as well as longitudinal comparison between domestic cases, so as to make actual conclusions on various types and nine problems and take countermeasures; in order to detect problems scientifically, various types of evaluation indicator systems are built; regarding various core problems, children museum education guidance is made; abstract four major theories according to museum education phenomenon for children; refer to changes of international museum education for children and look forward to future of museum education for children. Though the research shows that current abroad museum education for children is better, domestic children education also gradually develops. In case it can avoid its disadvantages and take advantages of the others, domestic children education efficiency can be effectively promoted. At the meanwhile, based on differences among various types, it suggests that various types of development could take periodical strategies. At present, it’s better to widely promote children education projects; reserve space in new museums and build branch space in old museums or change their layout to gradually set children area; based on support of government, starts to launch a pilot program to set up Children’s Museum.